I’m about three-quarters of the way through writing Infrastructure in Dystopian and Post-apocalyptic Film, 1968-2020, which investigates the ways abstract hopes of a better world take concrete form in infrastructure: power generation and distribution networks, roads and rail lines, water and waste disposal systems, and the food system. I argue that attention to infrastructure as part of a film’s set design and art direction is a key entry point to the politics of dystopian and post-apocalypti...